At 9:38 AM +0200 6/28/05, Eric Hoch wrote: >Hi, >Am Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:47:55 +0900, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>>> Much more interesting is the integration of the fixes into 2.0 >>>> sources. Here we have to take a look and see if Patricks >>>> patches, ported to 2.0, are of any help for 2.0 and prevent >>>> double work. Here we should take a closer look. But this isn't >>>> easy and here any help is welcomed. Here you could do code >>>> comparison. >>> I agree. We should be focusing on the current build and not a >>> backport release that may or may not happen. >> >> I'd like to remind the happy porting crowd that there is no 1.1.4 >> for OSX/X11 on the official download page. > >Indeed. But that is not our fault. When 1.1.4 was released Eric B >announced the availability of RC for it. We had en, de and fr >builds. In the end only the german nativ lang project did a QA and >released an official 1.1.4 for Mac OS X. All other lang projects >didn't do QA and so there is no official build available. Since >neither Eric B nor I had Jaguar those releases were Panther only >and still exist. QA can beginn any time soon. Ask Eric B. for the >url were RC 1.1.4 can be downloaded from. > >For Jaguar Terry Teague could help. Afaik he has 1.1.x builds for >Jaguar. I don't know which versions but he reads this list and we >may ask him. > >For Tiger the situation is different. Here we have builds working >but lacking some functionality - that is how I understand Eric >Bachard. Please ask him for details I don't want to write bogus >here. > >> Most of the places I know that propose OSX/X11 work with 1.1.2. > >Right. At least the international ones. In Germany the 1.1.4 is >widely spread. > >> I understand that 2.0 _is_ the next step from porting >> perspective, but from the user side, we'd rather have OOo go one >> step at a time :) > >Yes. It went on step by step but sorry we X11 cannot do everything >ourself and if nobody feels responsible for QA there is no official >build. O.K. The only fault we made and I can think of is that we >perhaps didn't notify trinity forums about the availability of a >1.1.x RC. > >> Unless there are technical reasons _not_ to propose a 1.1.4 for >> OSX/X11, in which case that should be documented on the download >> page, I suggest that some time is taken to make a 1.1.4 working >> build for OSX/X11. > >There is no technical reason and we have working 1.1.4 packages for >Panther. I only don't want to release them without QA. I therefore >invite everyone to do testing for 1.1.4 builds so that they can be >made available via the international download page. > >The only handicap I see is that we may need to offer three >different versions: > >One for Panther - available but no QA done >One for Jaguar - ask Terry Teague if he has one and do QA for this >too. >One for Tiger - available but buggy and newer builds break. Here >James McKenzie is on a good way in hopefully solving them.
I have been paying attention to the porting development list, but didn't want to get dragged into the current OOo/NeoOffice political discussion (I have my opinions on the real story, but I prefer not to stir things up). The last build of OOo I did was 1.9m97, then I went on vacation, etc. I have started getting back into OOo development, and I am currently building 1.9m112 (I ran into a couple of problems, but I will document those when my build finishes, or if I can't get past a problem). I do build OOo 1.1.x builds on Jaguar, and they all work (for me in my limited testing) on Jaguar/Panther/Tiger, but I have no formal QA/release process in place, partly because the official US version of OOo 1.1.2 for Mac OS X used the InstallAnywhere Installer, and I don't have a license to use that, and I haven't had time to put together an installer package for Jaguar/Panther/Tiger users that is as good as the one for OOo 1.1.2 (in spite of a couple of known bugs with that installer). More importantly, I don't have any server space, nor do I have broadband Internet access at home, so I can release my builds - if someone can help with server space, I might be able to do something. FYI, I did attempt to build OOo 1.9m97 on Jaguar but ran into a couple of problems that prevented the build from succeeding, and I haven't found time or got the expertise to investigate further. I did run into some problems building 1.9m97 that I intended to document, but vacation and other things got in the way, so I am now waiting for my 1.9m112 builds to see if I still have to document the issues. If you want me to try some builds of OOo 1.1.5 candidates in Jaguar/Panther/Tiger, I could probably do that. >Regards, >Eric Hoch Regards, Terry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
